The Boston Globe threatened to shut down today if their unions did not agree to $20 million in cuts. Talks bogged down, but the paper is still open. Talks are to resume tomorrow. If the Globe closes, Boston would become the only major city without a major newspaper.
The Boston Globe and its largest workers union have finished all-night contract-concession talks without a deal. The Globes owner, Times Co. has threatened to shutdown the 137-year-old newspaper. (May 4)
The reason it is primarily the liberal print media that is dying is that only conservatives still like their news hand delivered weekly on sheets of dyed wood pulp. I find it amusing that the liberals are accused of being dinosaurs because they have moved to more efficient methods, or are you saying the intertubes have a conservative bias?
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